of the eye and crawls around and actually eats the retina. >> reporter: there are only about 15 known cases like this in the world. >> the worm goes into the gut, digests in the gut, and actually doesn't crawl through blood vessels but crawls its way through tissue all the way for some reason to the eye and the brain. >> i was never freaked out by it. when they said, you've got a worm in your eye, it wasn't get it out. it was, what do we do now? >> reporter: minutes later dr. folk armed himself with a laser and put the worm in the crosshairs. >> hurry up and kill the thing. good shooting, doc. >> this thing was splashing around violently. i mean, it was -- it would be like one of those titan movies of "iron man" or something like this. >> reporter: the worm is dead. but john must do computer exercises to strengthen his eye. his vision has improved but may never return to new yoormal. >> sharp shooting days are over. >> reporter: for the rest of his life john will be on a different kind of hunting expa edition, to see if any doctor can restore his eyesight. >> fascinating case to say t

. >> there are changes in the back of the eye, in in the retina that have to be monitored and can affect function. so we have to watch for those. >> reporter: john will check with his doctor to see if he is handle the side effects and he is certainly ready to try it. >> is an easier way to take it. easier than jabbing yourself with a needle. >> reporter: patients have to check to see if it will be covered by their insurance. >> and it may not be the only ms drug on the market for long. the fda is expected to announce a decision on another oral medication as early as december. for more living well headlines, log on to our website at wusa9.com. and click on our living well tab on the front page. >>> well, pretty soon there will be no need for gamblers to cross the border from the free state. and making an effort to go green could wind up costing you more green. these stories and more when 9 news now continues. i've got power pain can't mess with. (announcer) new icy hot power gel. relief that's icy to dull pain, hot to relax it away. and no mess. new icy hot power gel. don't mess around wi

. >> there are some changes in the back of the eye and the retina that have to be monitored. and it can affect liver functions. so we have to watch for all of those. >> reporter: daggett is going to check with his doctor to see if he can handle the possible side effects but he says he is ready to try it. >> it's just a really easy way to take it in pill form. it's much more comfortable than jabbing yourself with a needle. >> reporter: novartis the drugmaker is hoping to make it available within the next few weeks but it might not be the only pill on the market for long. the fda is expected to make a decision on another oral medication for m.s. as early as december. so how does this drug work? well, it attaches to a docking site on certain immune cells, certain white blood cells that keeps them inside of the lymph nodes. since they are trapped there they don't travel to the brain or the spinal cord where they might do harm. juliette? >> dr. kim, thank you. >>> just when you thought it was over, ike's is back again! where the popular sandwiches are now being sold. >>> a new boo

two of the biggest improvements on it is it has like the iphone 4, a very sharp screen called retina, four times sharper than last year's model and has two cameras, not one. it's the first time touch has a camera. a front facing camera for video chats and one in the back when you're shooting your friends and so forth. also it's got access to new features that itunes added, which is ping. >> rick: social networking. >> right, but it's really bent towards getting you to buy itunes products, like hey, have lady gaga blogging. i'd like you to try this new thing, you know. i follow her, but she hasn't followed me. i don't know why. >> rick: i'm so surprised to hear that. >> juliet: after today, you never know. >> keep an eye out. >> rick: that's cool. how much is that? >> this is three prices. for 8 gigabyte, $230. and you can double that. you'll probably want the higher capacity one, 16 giga bite -- 64. right. >> rick: if you have an iphone, you don't need that? >> no. but if you don't have an iphone but want a lot of the features, this is great. this the ultimate player. this is movies.

. >> there are changes in the back of the eye, in the retina that have to be monitored. and it can affect liver function. we have to watch for all of those. >> reporter: daggett is going to check with his doctor for possible side effects. but he says he is ready to try it. >> it's easy to take it in a pill form. it's much more comfortable than jabbing yourself with a needle. >> they are hoping to make it available soon. randall pinkston, wjz eyewitness news. >>> gelenia might not be the only pill on the market for long. the fda is expected to make a recommendation on another oral medication for m.s. as early as december. >>> also, a new study shows playing video games improves vision for adults with lazy eye. researchers found better perception. until now, there were few treatments with adults for lazy eye. >>> bigger adult entertainment at the hippo drom theater. andrea fujii tells us what is new. >>> the blue man group is just one of the many acts, coming to the hippodrome this fall. but that's not all. >> the lead of the season is probably jersey boys, which is wildly

. >> there are changes in the back of the eye, in the retina that have to be monitored and it can effect functions. so we have to watch for those. >> reporter: john is going to check with his doctor to see if he could handle the possible side effects. he's certainly ready to try. >> it's just an easy way to take it in a pill form. it's much more comfortable than jabbing yourself with a needle. >> reporter: the maker is hoping to make it available soon. patients have to check to see if it will be covered by their insurance. >> and it may not be the only m.s. pill on the market long. the fda is expected to decide on another medications early as december of this year. >>> thank you for joining us for 9 news now at 5:00. now starting 9 news now at 6:00. >>> in the murder of trooper wesley brown, one of the two murder suspect was in court this afternoon. he is facing first-degree murder charges. another man, anthony milton ii also faces murder charges in the case. a detective testified that milton confessed,

touchscreen nano, and a thinner ipod touch with a front facing camera and that new high definition retinaisplay. a new version of itunes includes anew music-based social network. you can share music with friends and keep traffic your favorite artists. >> i was a little disappointed that we didn't see more web- based innovations from apple as far as getting more itunes content out of the software and on the web. >> reporter: no surprising announcements from apple today. but the company is hoping its ipods are winners this holiday season and getting serious about tv and movies over the internet. for cbs news, i'm motley wood in san francisco. >>> in one of america's bluest states, a very tough race for democratic senators. just how much trouble does barbara boxer find herself in as she prepares to debate carly fiorina? >> state lawmakers want to change the way all california parents get their kids ready for kindergarten but is it good for the children or the state's bottom line? >> we are 17,100-plus 2900 square feet of terrace, floor, a -- for a grand living space of 20,000. >> yeah, it's

long-torm text goes out of business and all we have is tiny bit of information being thrown at our retinas. this is the problem i see. nobody wants to talk about books at the water cooler, they want to talk tv shows, and it's almost as if we're too tiredar a long day of work, that we don't want to retreat to our home and read a 400-page book. >> brown: i don't want to give away what happens here, but there is a love story, as you said, at the core, for all of the cien of stuff going on around it, there is an earnest, actual love story. >> it's interesting, i mean, the more-- everything changes. and people now don't meet at a bar or church or whatever. they meet online and that's when they go out, but the basic elements of love continue. everybody is lonely, and everybody wants to connect with somebody who can make their life hopefully a little bit better. that doesn't change. it's the society around us that changes. what's interesting to me is when people don't know how to communicate to each other, in this book talking is called "verballing" and it's rarely done. eb has this little pendan